The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 22

THE EVENING SUN, Monday, April 23, 1984 Thanks to 'Mr. grade-schoolers get quick rewards for 'the right stuff' By Teresa Franklin Special to The Evening Sun One morning last year when William E. Lamb visited the construction site of his Fells Point restaurant, he found a little boy wandering among the workers. Asked why he wasn't in school, the boy boasted that he rarely attended school. "That kid clearly thought he was kind of neat," recalled Lamb, who is a former pre-release superintendent for Maryland's prison system.

Soon after his restaurant opened last summer, Lamb joined with school officials to develop a program to reward children for attending school regularly and behaving courteously. The program is called the Elementary School Incentive Program. Children who are neither absent nor late for school for one month are to receive certificates of accomplishment. Attached to the certificates are coupons that the kids can redeem for free hamburgers at Lamb's Hardee's restaurant, 2033 Eastern Ave. "We are trying to change attitudes, to make going to school the right thing to do, 1 to encourage positive 1 behavior," said Lamb, who is known to the children as "Mr.

Bill." "It's a way to reward good behavior on the spot," Lamb said. When a problem child suddenly does something good by accident, someone needs to reinforce the behavior immediately. "You wanna jump on he said. Many of Lamb's former jail clients began as anti-social children, he explained. "When you work at that end of the spectrum, you experience tremendous frustration.

adult were too set in their ways. Schools can't reach all those kids alone, he said. The community and its businesses should help teach children moral values. "My personal interest is in the elementary schools," said Lamb, the father of three, two in elementary school. "If we miss the kids between first and sixth grade, we are going to miss them.

I see that the elementary school is the place to attack the The attendance program was developed by Lamb in cooperation with Laura Whitfield, principal at General CLOSED By Richard Childress Evening Sun "Mr. Bill" Lamb, left, watches Norberto Perez and Jacqueline from Rosa Jones at Lamb's Fells Point Hardee's. Perez won Marshall of General Wolfe Elementary collect free lunches certificate for perfect attendance, Marshall for scholarship. Wolfe Elementary School, and teach- Lamb plans to give June parties at For now, Wolfe and the following chaels School, Father Kolbe er coordinator Regina Logan after Lamb asked what his business could contribute to the community. To encourage perfect attendance, Organized prayers for preschoolers at recreation centers debated his restaurant for students with no absences during the school year, and those who miss only one day due to illness.

schools are included in the program: School 27, Hampstead Elementary School, David E. Weglein Elementary School, Holy Rosary School, St. Mi- and St. Patricks School. Next year, Lamb said, he hopes to expand the program to Highlandtown.

would be stopped. When his second ents and service groups in the com- bar vocal prayer. child began attending the school a munity. year later, Ingoglia said, he found the "I took the child out and tried to Miller said she then told other parParks ents about Ingoglia's objection and Again, Ingoglia said, he prayer. and Recreation but all the others they all signed forms supporting preschoolers still reciting the find another preschool run by complained to Miller and told the prayed for cookies and punch, too," prayer at the preschool.

was practice would be halted. Ingoglia Ingoglia said. "I could have changed it but I didsaid he finally removed his third child Miller denied ever telling Ingoglia n't see anything wrong with what we from the school last December. that the prayer would be discontin- are doing," said Miller. "If I gave up He said he regretted the decision ued.

She said her superiors at the city everything that some parent protestbecause the preschool was run ex- agency told her the preschool pro- ed about, after a while there would be pertly and received a great deal of fi- gram was distinct from the recrea- nothing left -no fingerpainting, no nancial and moral support from par- tion center so it was not required to free play and no skating." Ansel Adams, outdoors pho photographer, environmentalist CARMEL HIGHLANDS, Calif. (AP)Ansel Adams, whose stirring black-and-white photographs captured the majesty of America's wilderness for millions of people, is dead at age 82, his family reported. Adams, an environmentalist who testified recently before Congress on the need to preserve the California coastline from development, died of natural causes last night in a Monterey hospital, a family spokesman said. Among his best-known works were dramatic photos, some lit only by moonlight, of Yosemite National Park in California. Adams began taking photographs in the High Sierra and Yosemite Valley, and turned professional in 1930, the year he published the first of his many books of photographs, "Taos Pueblo." He specialized in regional landscape photos, especially in the Southwest, emphasizing conservation of nature.

He wrote numerous technical manuals, including the "Basic Photo Books" series, and helped found the first museum photographic art department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He also started the first college department of photography, at the California School of Fine Art, in 1946. Adams, whose books and folios of photographs sold more than 1 million copies, snapped his first photograph at Yosemite National Park with a Kodak Brownie box camera when he was 14. Yosemite remained one of his favorites subjects, and his portrait of the monolith Half Dome was among his best work. His affiliation with the environmentally oriented Sierra Club spanned a half-century, and he was one of the strongest voices on the need to conserve natural resources along the coast where he lived.

ANSEL ADAMS Dead at 82 Staff gift School PRAYER, From C1 "It's a little rote prayer that kids have said for a hundred years. It i is something that I once recited as a school kid," Miller explained. "It's like the pledge of allegiance or anything else. It's a token thing. "We use it to build self-image.

No one is forced to say it and probably half of them don't even remember it. It's a courtesy thing. We're teaching courtesy." But parents from the mostly white, Catholic neighborhoods of Gardenville and Overlea, who support the idea of their children praying in the preschool, say the practice has carried over into the home. "I think it's good. They should have never taken prayer out of public school," said Barbara Lager, whose 3-year-old daughter, Angela, attends the preschool.

"Now she always makes sure we stop before dinner to say grace." Joseph Ingoglia, the father who complained to the ACLU, said he first found out about the prayer five years ago, when his oldest son, Michael, attended the preschool. "I have no problems with people praying in private but I didn't want my child to learn about God that way," said Ingoglia, an ironworker and the father of four. "I thought that was my religious freedom." Ingoglia said he complained to Miller, who assured him the practice Obituaries "The interesting thing is that people look at my pictures and they accept them, in a sense, as reality," he once told the Associated Press in an interview. "My detractors say I'm a postcard and calendar photographer." Neither side was right, he said. "Something in them says that's the way it is, but it's not that way at all.

The tone's expanded and concentrated all over the place a balance of light," he said. His books included "This is the American Earth," "'The Eloquent Light," "These We Inherit, America's Parklands," "Photographs of the Southwest," and "Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light." His book "Born Free and Equal" in 1944 was an effort to aid Japanese-Americans incarcerated during World War II. Mary E. Schuler, 55 Mary E. Schuler, an award-winning agent for Grempler Realty, died of cancer Friday at her home in the 100 block of Castlewood Drive.

A mass of Christian burial was to be offered today at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N. Charles St. Mrs. Schuler was 55. Mrs.

Schuler, who worked for Grempler for more than a dozen years, was named saleswoman of the year in 1982 by the Real Estate Board of Greater Baltimore. That same year, she was a Baltimore's Best award nominee. She was a member of the G.R.E.A.T. Club at Grempler and of the local Million Dollar Club. A native of Baltimore, the former Mary E.

Dilli was a graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame and for a time worked for the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. She was active in the Preservation Society at the Cathedral, worked as a volunteer in fund drives for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and had been an adult leader in the Girl Scouts. Her husband, H. Gerard Schuler, is vice president of the French Bray Printing Company. Jeremiah Marion Brandt Jeremiah Marion Brandt a shipfitter who helped build the United States naval fleet in both world wars, died Saturday at North Arundel Hospital after an illness of several months.

He was 90. Mr. Brandt donated his body to medical science. A memorial service will be held later. Born in Baltimore, Mr.

Brandt attended public schools in Highlandtown before going to work at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point shipyard. He enlisted in the Navy during World War I and was promptly sent to Norfolk, to perform for the military the same job he had done in Baltimore- -working as a shipfitter. After the war he went to work for the Union Shipbuilding Company in Fairfield. That was acquired by Bethlehem Steel early in World War II, and it was there that Mr. Brandt participated in the construction of the Liberty ship fleet as supervisor of the Fairfield yard's transportation department.

After the World War II, Mr. Brandt operated a Shell service station and an electrical appliance store in English Consul. He sold the business when he retired in 1952, moving first to Glen Burnie Park and then to Harundale. He was former treasurer of the old Home Building and Loan Association in Brooklyn and was a longtime member of the Highland Blue Masonic lodge. Surviving are his wife of 64 years, the former Emma Cora Hoare; a daughter, Doris Marie Stephens, of Randallstown; three sons, Wilbur L.

Brandt, of Ferndale, Louis Albert Brandt, of Hanover, and Jeremiah M. Brandt of Severna Park; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Bernice M. Mizdail, 53 Bernice M. Mizdail, a former assistant professor of nursing at Towson State University, died Saturday morning at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center.

A mass of Christian burial will be offered at noon tomorrow at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 501 Summit Ave. in Reading, Pa. Miss Mizdail was 53. A native of Baltimore, she received a degree in nursing from Teachers' College at St.

Louis University in 1955. She received her master's degree in nursing from Columbia University in 1963. Miss Mizdail returned to Baltimore in 1973 and was on the staff of Franklin Square Hospital for two years. From 1977 to 1980 she taught at Towson State. She worked at Lutheran Hospital from 1981 until last year, when her health deteriorated.

She is survived by her parents, Bruce F. Mizdail and Pauline E. Mizdail, of Reading; a brother, Conrad Mizdail, of Lansdale, and a sister, Barbara Mizdail, of Collegeville, Pa. The family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Parish Hymnal Fund of St. Joseph's Church in Fullerton or the Towson State University School of Nursing.

Helen Barnes Crowley Services will be held for Helen Barnes Crowley, a longtime English teacher at Catonsville High School, died April 16 at her home on Glenrae Drive in Catonsville. Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Catonsville United Methodist Church, 6 Melvin Ave. Mrs. Crowley was 83.

She graduated from Catonsville High School in 1918 and from Goucher College in 1923 with a degree in English. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and remained active in the college's alumni organization until 1980. In 1925, Mrs. Crowley, the former Helen Barnes, started teaching English at Catonsville High School where she also directed school plays and organized literary groups. She was one of the earliest members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1917.

She was also a member of the New Democratic Club. She is survived by her stepson, Daniel H. Crowley of Washington, and two granddaughters. The family requests that memorial donations be made to the alumni fund at Goucher College. Barbara F.

Bentley, 61 programmer at the Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn, died Tuesday at Sinai Hospital after a brief illness. A mass of resurrection was to be offered today at St. Edward's Church, 901 Poplar Grove St. Mrs. Bentley was 61 and lived in the 3300 block of Barrington Road.

She retired in 1977 after working for Social Security for more than 35 years. Born in Baltimore, the former Barbara H. Fletcher was a graduate of the Bordentown High School, a boarding school in New Jersey. She attended Morgan State University and Coppin State College. She was a member of Tent 19 of the Variety Club Women and of the SML, a social club.

Her husband, Bedford T. Bentley, is a civilian physicist at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. In addition to her husband, her survivors include two sons, Bedford T. Bentley of Fort Washington, and Blaine T. Bentley, of Baltimore; two daughters, Beryl L.

BentleyAnderson, of Baltimore, and Benita L. Bentley, of Arlington, Texas, and three grandchildren. Barbara F. Bentley, a retired computer Albert G. Packard, 89 Albert G.

Packard, retired director of testing for Baltimore schools, died April 11 at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown. Mr. Packard, who was 89 and lived in Roland Park, had been ill for several months. He had been staying with his daughter in Hagerstown. He retired in 1964 from the city school system where he had started as a vocational school teacher 45 years before.

A founder of Maryland Psychological Associates, a testing firm, he developed his own aptitude tests for use in the schools. The tests were also used by the Army during World War II. He also devised and administered tests for candidates for the University of Maryland nursing school. The federal government sent him to Frankfurt, Germany, in the early 1950s to set up a testing program in the schools there. He also taught night and summer courses in statistics, child psychology and related fields at Johns Hopkins University.

A native of Sturgis, S.D., he attended college in that state before serving in the Navy during World War I. Following the war, he settled in Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland. He earned a master's degree and did graduate work at Columbia University. He was a member of the Phi Delta Kappa honorary fraternity. His wife, the former Eva DeFord, died in, 1974.

He is survived by his daughter, Charlotte P. Jennings, of Hagerstown; a son, Dr. Albert G. Packard of Easton; nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Services for Mr.

Packard were held April 14 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Hagerstown. The family asks that memorial dona-, tions be made to the American Heart Association. D. A.

Piracci local builder, dead at 49 Baltimore construction executive Dominic A. Piracci 49, died Saturday in Sinai Hos-: pital after a lengthy illness. Funeral services for Mr. Piracci, who owned Dominion Construction will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St.

Charles Borromeo Catholic Church at Pikesville. Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

today and tomorrow at William E. Johnson Funeral Home at Pikesville. A Baltimore native, Mr. Piracci was the son of the late Dominic Piracci who died. in 1982.

The elder Piracci also was a prominent local builder and had close ties to the politically powerful D'Alesandro family. Mr. Piracci Jr. was the brother-in-law of former Mayor Thomas J. D'Alesandro 3rd.

After attending McDonogh School and the University of Maryland and completing four years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Piracci founded Dominion in 1968. He built a number of buildings in Baltimore, Ocean City and in North Carolina. He was a member of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Safari Club and enjoyed flying, hunting and boating.

He is survived by his wife, Constance Fava Piracci; two sons, Joseph and Dominic Piracci 3rd; his mother, Violet Campbell Piracci; two sisters, Jacquelyn Rupp and Susan Roggio, and two brothers, Lamont and Thomas Michael Piracci. Memorial contributions may be made to the Dominic A. Piracci Jr. Fund for Needy Children, in care of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church..